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Although I have no karma, I read Slashdot every day. It’s where the sharks at flood-control dam #3 all have laser beams, and a Calvin and Hobbes v XKCD debate can erupt at any time. Sure, you’ll be taunted if you confuse monads and monoids or say something nice about MS, but it’s still a good place pontificate on a subject you know almost nothing about. “Space elevator, I’m an expert. I’ve read the Mars trilogy.”

Ars Technica, which means “the art of technology”, is a magazine of technology-related news and essays with a low-key tone and a very pleasant layout. Real journalism without spin, not product announcements and press releases.

A bit like TechCrunch with a surprisingly ugly layout, Techmeme is a good source of computer industry hype/gossip/news. Not technical in the engineering sense, but maybe in the journalistic sense. I’m trying to be nice here.

Channel 9‘s a good place to go when you feel like you need more Microsoft in your life. Pretty good content, professionally presented. Scoble rose from here.

If you’re hungry for category theory (and who isn’t), stop by the n-Category Café. Have a greasy spoonful of groupoidification, smootheology, and geometrisation. Deep fry your brain in homotopical nonabelian cohomology and categorified symplectic geometry. Don’t be a catagephobiac-ificationologist. And it’s not just for general abstract nonsensephiles — there are also more accessible articles on cosmology, mathematical physics, and even a bit of general science.